Vice Dean John G. Palfrey of the Harvard Law School recently gave a lecture entitled The Path of Legal Information, on 9 November 2010, at the Harvard Law School. In his lecture, Dean Palfrey proposes the development of an open, interoperable system of digital legal information, and describes possible consequences of such a system forRead… Read more »
Derek Coursen of Public Health Solutions and James E. McMillan of the National Center for State Courts, have published A Framework for Logical Data Models in Courts, Data Administration Newsletter, v. 14, no. 2 (December 1, 2010). Here is the abstract: Success in implementing a court automation system depends on developing a high-quality logical dataRead… Read more »
I am en route to see family via train and sitting in the cafe car eating a hot dog, and the gentleman sitting behind me picks up the phone to call (presumably his aunt or mom). After pleasantries and holiday wishes, the conversation turns to the peculiar topic of voicemail security and passwords. In theRead… Read more »
Hallo, My Love America, liebes Let`s Move Team international,, wir, unsere Let`s Move Group haben 2010 viel erreicht. Ich bedanke mich ganz herzlich bei allen Beteiligten in den vielen Ländern. Besonderen Dank gilt dem Präsidenten der USA Barack Obama und der First Lady Michelle Obama, unserer First Lady Bettina Wulff, unserem Europaabgeordneten Dr. Dieter Lebrecht.Read… Read more »
Had a great Xmas discussion tonight with my mother, who is of a generation that remembers better times, when the gap was not quite so wide, when Americans truly had the Gov 2.0 “Do It Ourselves” mentality, rather than the “I’m in it for myself” attitude we see so often today. She asked, and IRead… Read more »
It turns out that Santa, with the help of some terribly two clever elves over at Montreal Ouvert has created an Open Data inspired present for Montrealers. What, you must ask could it be? It’s PatinerMontreal.ca It’s a genius little website created by two Montreal developers – James McKinney and Dan Mireault – that scrapesRead… Read more »
FedinsiderTrying to change the government is like running up a hill that gradually gets steeper. The going gets more difficult and eventually you tire out. Two years since President Obama was inaugurated, his team managing the government itself has been stable. And it enters 2011 still having pretty good momentum. The one big change wasRead… Read more »
Prizes and competitions provide one way to stimulate innovation and tap “solver communities” that may not have been leveraged previously when considering some of our nation’s grand challenges. As I wrote this past summer, both on my featured jennovation series on Govloop and the Phase One Consulting Group Transformation in the Federal Sector Blog, thereRead… Read more »
San Francisco’s always been a special place for movie buffs. And now the City’s Film Commission is opening up its treasure trove of historical information to application developers. As part of the City’s signature “open data” initiative, the commission this week posted information on more than 800 San Francisco locations used in movie shoots fromRead… Read more »
Hola and Feliz Navidad from 35,000 feet as I blog on my return flight from Bogota, Colombia where I return with sunburn, coffee and new perspectives after working with the government of Barranquilla to combat devastating floods in the country. Exactly one week after witnessing the Army Corp of Engineers’ giant levee plug in Vicksburg,Read… Read more »